Dancer's Image
| Dancer's Image | |
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| Sire | Native Dancer |
| Grandsire | Polynesian |
| Dam | Noors Image |
| Damsire | Noor |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | April 10, 1965 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Gray |
| Breeder | Ryemeadow Farms |
| Owner | Peter Fuller |
| Trainer | Lou Cavalaris, Jr. |
| Record | 24: 12-5-1 |
| Earnings | $236,636 |
| Major wins | |
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Clarendon Stakes (1967) Grey Stakes (1967) Vandal Stakes (1967) Maryland Futurity Stakes (1967) Wood Memorial Stakes (1968) Kentucky Derby (1968) (Disqualified) |
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| Last updated on May 18, 2010 | |
Dancer's Image (April 10, 1965 – December 26, 1992) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the only winner in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been disqualified.
Dancer's Image was a gray horse owned and bred by businessman Peter Fuller, the son of former Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller. The colt was trained by Lou Cavalaris, Jr. and ridden in the Derby by jockey Bobby Ussery.
At age two, Dancer's Image won graded stakes races in Maryland and at Woodbine Racetrack in Ontario, Canada. At age three, in the lead-up to the 1968 U.S. Triple Crown races, he won several more races including the Grade I Wood Memorial Stakes. For the Kentucky Derby, he was a second choice among bettors to Calumet Farm's Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes winner Forward Pass.
Dancer's Image was plagued by sore ankles during his career. On the Sunday prior to the Kentucky Derby, his handlers had a veterinarian give him a dose of phenylbutazone, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory commonly used to relieve inflammation of the joints. At the time, it was illegal for phenylbutazone to be in a horse's system on race day at Churchill Downs; however, Dancer's Image's connections believed the medication would clear his system in time for the Derby.
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